- ENCE300 : Fundamentals of Engineering Materials
Behavior, physical, mechanical and chemical properties, design and performance of civil engineering materials, including aggregates, cement, concrete, asphalt binders and mixtures, plastics and geosynthetics, timber, metals and alloys. Modified and advanced highway materials (polymer and rubber modified mixtures, high performance concrete, composites, smart materials). Laboratory testing with hands-on experience on aggregates, Portland cement concrete, asphalt mixtures, timber and metals as per SUPERAVE, ACI design methods, and ASTM standards and specifications.
- ENCE 340 : Slope Stability and Seepage
Theoretical and practical aspects of seepage effects, and groundwater flow, review of shear strength principles, flow through porous media, hydraulic conductivity, flow nets, determination of water pressure, seepage forces and quantity of seepage, laboratory and field tests for shear strength, infinite slopes, block analysis, method of slices, seismic analysis of slopes, effective and total stress analysis, computer program for slope stability analysis, slope stability problems in waste disposal, construction excavations, reinforced embankments, embankments on soft ground.
- ENCE340 : Fundamentals of Geotechnical Engineering
Introductory study of soils in civil engineering. Soil origin, phase relationships and classification schemes. Soil hydraulics: capillary, effective stress, permeability and seepage considerations. Basic stress distribution theories and soil consolidation-settlement analysis. Integration of shear strength evaluation with slope stability analysis. If time permits, topics such as applications in geoenvironmental engineering will be covered.
- ENCE444 : Experimental Methods in Geotechnical Structural Engineering
In the geotechnical engineering part of the course, major soils testing and their interpretation including classification, compaction, strength, and compressibility will be undertaken. The structural engineering part of this course covers test planning, loading apparatus, instrumentation, data acquisition and data analysis, as well as basic aspects of structural testing techniques and shake-table test.
- ENCE613 : Structural Dynamics
Analysis of the dynamic response of structrues and structural components subjected to impact load, transient load, and ground excitations; study of single degree-of-freedom and multi degree-of-freedom systems in classical closed form solution and approximate numerical solution; solution in the frequency domain and the use of finite element method.
- ENCE640 : Advanced Soil Mechanics
Introduction to the use of elastic theory in stress and displacement solutions to geotechnical engineering (soil and rock mechanics). The effect of soil moisture (at rest) relative to effective stress principles, capillary and frost. Exact and numeric techniques for the analysis for soil seepage under isotropic and anisotropic conditions. Classical settlement (consolidation) and compressiblility theories, including finite difference solution for vertical and radial drainage.
- ENCE 688 : Theory Guided Machine Learning
An introductory course in Machine Learning/Data Science, probability or statistics will be beneficial.
- ENCE688B : Advanced Topics in Civil Engineering; Probability Graphical Models
Introductory study the intersection of civil engineering and probabilistic modeling, emphasizing the use of graphical models to deal with uncertainty in engineering systems.
- ENCE688W : Advanced Topics in Civil Engineering; Design of Mass Timber Structures
This course will expose students to the design of mass timber structures covering the following topics: Analysis and design of lumber and mass timber (CLT and Glulam) structural members and structural systems including tension members, beams (flexural members), columns, beam-columns, floor diaphragms, shear walls, connections, and fire design. This course focuses on medium-rise wood buildings constructed ofmass timber structural members such as cross-laminated timber (CLT) and glulam members. Project based learning approach will be used. The current version of the National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood Construction is used.